Hostages of the SS (2015)

6.2/10 • 0 min • Drama History War Documentary

Overview

April 1945. In a dramatic operation the SS transports 139 special prisoners, and kin of the prisoners, into the Alps. The plan: to use the prisoners as bargaining chips in possible negotiations with the Allies. During the journey a number of prisoners plan their escape and experience six days between liberty and death, their fates in the hands of ruthless and increasingly nervous criminals. But the hostages band together and turn the tables with a clever ploy: they call in the Wehrmacht to aid them…

Cast

Tim Bergmann

Bogislav von Bonin

Isabelle Barth

Ingeborg Schroeder

Torsten Münchow

Garibaldi

Martin Thaler

Kurt von Schuschnigg

Marc Benjamin

Jimmy James

Uwe Bohm

Bader

Xenia Benevolenskaya

Benigna Goerdeler

Tomas Spencer

Fey von Hassel

Gerhard Wittmann

Stiller

Ricardo Angelini

Enrico Salvatore

Rainer Frank

Wichard von Alvesleben

Sina Reiß

Isa Vermehren

Martin Liema

Hermann

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